28mm F2.8 Asph. Elmarit. 1/1000 sec F/5.6 @ ISO 1600. 60% crop and edited in Photoscape. A friend explained to me the difference between a device and a tool. A device is simply a complicated tool. If it fails to accomplish its task, we simply blame the device. A laptop is a device. Same as a modern digital camera. When we fail at updating the latest software on our laptop, or our DSLR fails at focusing during a sports game, we blame the device. It’s not our fault. The device has failed us. What’s a tool? A hammer is a tool. It’s simple. It’s an extension of our hand. When we miss the nail, we don’t blame the tool. We know the fault is ours. In the world of photography, a manual film camera is as close to a photographic tool as you can get. It is an extension of our eyes and hands. Manual focus, manual exposure, manual film loading. If we misfocus, get the exposure wrong, or misload our film, do we blame the camera? No, we know it’s our fault. A good tool doesn’t fail us. We fail the
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